Want the best dark romance books to read on kindle? If you’re looking for dark romance book recs, look no further! Because the dark and spicy books on this list are stuffed with antiheroes, touch-her-and-die vibes, morally grey men, and so much more. If you can’t find your next favorite dark romance obsession on this list…you might be dead!

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The Best Dark Romance Books

Twisted Game by Eva Ashwood

Synopsis:

I was the girl no one looked at twice. Until they saw me.

My whole life, no one has had my back. My parents are dead, my adoptive mother is a drug addict, and the mean girls on campus mock me for my scars.

So when I end up desperate for money and out of options, I agree to sell the one thing I have left: my innocence.

On the night I’m meant to give my body to a brutal Russian mobster, three men storm into the room like dark shadows and kill him before he can claim me. When they drag me from the blood-soaked bed, I’m certain they’re going to kill me too.

They don’t… but they don’t forget about me, either.

These three dangerous brothers will do anything to make sure I keep my mouth shut about what I saw, even if it means stalking my every movement. I’m a loose thread to them—but somehow, I’m becoming more than that too.

I’m becoming an obsession.
A temptation.
A craving.

And no matter how much I try to deny the terrifying attraction that pulses between us, I know if I don’t find a way out of this tangled web soon…

Their darkness will swallow me up.

Something Darker

by Michael Wellington

Synopsis:

It’s been three months since I escaped from my abusive ex-boyfriend, Ryan, but my life hasn’t gotten any easier. The large gap in my employment history, thanks to Ryan refusing to allow me to work, means no one wants to hire me. But I can’t stay in my best friend Ava’s spare bedroom forever. Especially since Ava and her husband are in the midst of turning it into a nursery for the baby they are so loudly trying to conceive every night.

To make matters worse, the bills for my mother’s stay in an Alzheimer’s care facility are racking up fast. And if I don’t find a way to pay for them soon, Ryan will make good on his threats to make himself my mother’s power of attorney, thereby controlling me through my mother until the day she dies.

So when I get offered a job for a live-in maid position at a mysterious mansion for a gorgeous wealthy couple, I take it, despite Ava’s protests. But what I don’t realize is that my new bosses want me to service more than just their house. And to my surprise, I find myself wanting to service more.

To service them.

But when I discover the truth about what happened to the couples’ previous maid, everything changes…

Saint by Eva Simmons

Synopsis:

From the moment I spotted him on the side of the road, I knew he was trouble.

Now I’m kneeling at the mercy of a masked devil with my boyfriend’s blood on my hands.

He tells me to call him Saint because he saved me… that I should be thankful he spared me a worse fate.

I’m tempted to fight him or bargain. But when Saint tells me to run, a twisted part of me wonders if he’ll chase.

Hooked by Emily McIntire

Synopsis:

He wants revenge, but he wants her more…

James has always had one agenda: destroy his enemy, Peter Michaels. When Peter’s twenty-year-old daughter Wendy shows up in James’s bar, he sees his way in. Seduce the girl and use her for his revenge. It’s the perfect plan, until things in James’s organization begin to crumble. Suddenly, he has to find the traitor in his midst, and his plan for revenge gets murkier as James starts to see Wendy as more than just a pawn in his game.

Wendy has been cloistered away most of her life by her wealthy cold father, but a spontaneous night out with friends turns into an intense and addictive love affair with the dark and brooding James. As much as she knows James is dangerous, Wendy can’t seem to shake her desire for him. But as their relationship grows more heated and she learns more about the world he moves in, she finds herself unsure if she’s falling for the man known as James or the monster known as Hook.

Little Stranger by Leigh Rivers

Synopsis:

She betrayed him, and now he wants revenge against the foster sister who became his forbidden obsession the second he laid eyes on her. After she sends him to prison for years, he’s free and ready to haunt her.

Everything about Olivia belongs to Malachi Vize.
Her mind
Her body
Her soul
Her fear
Her pain

On Halloween night, he can no longer lurk in the shadows. All he has left to own is her heart, even if he needs to take it.

Michael Wellington is the dark romance author of Something Darker and Darker Still. His writing is provocatively sexy, steamy as hell, and unapologetically erotic with plot twists you'll never see coming. Learn More